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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Peters was a good coach. He coached Gio to a Norris and got career years out of Tkachuk, Lindholm, Johnny and Monny.
The issue was the team was not prepared for the Avs and Makar obviously. They got steam rolled, but it was still a close series in the end. A glove save away from a 2-0 series lead going to Colorado.
The issue became that series made Peters and Treliving panic, and change how we play. A lot of the strong metrics the team had under Sutter in 2022 they had that under Peters just not the goaltending.
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Nothing about that series was close. It was a stomping. And really, the team had some serious issues dating back months before the playoffs - they had limped in thanks to an outrageous first half but were not playing anywhere close to where they finished in the standings.
Sutter was also the one who cracked the career years on Tkachuk, Lindholm and Gaudreau. Not Peters that year.
Peters was a bad hire, just like Geoff Ward and Glen Gulutzen. Pair that with a long list of mediocre stop gap goalie options and bungling the Tkachuk/Gaudreau contracts and I don't know how anyone can advocate that Treliving was a standout GM.